DirectX 10 Games vs. Contemporary Graphics

Nice review:
http://xbitlabs.com/articles/video [...] html#sect1

Despite its unassuming performance in DirectX 9 benchmarks, the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT is capable of beating the Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX, which is much more expensive, in DirectX 10 applications provided that the Catalyst driver has game-specific optimizations. Of course, Nvidia’s ForceWare driver has to “know” the particular game to run it at a high speed, too.
The ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT and HD 2400 XT are kind of DirectX 10 kings in their respective price categories. However, these cards often prove to be slower than Nvidia’s GeForce 8 in the more important DirectX 9 applications.
The ATI Radeon HD 2000 architecture features the most advanced implementation of DirectX 10 today.
Performance of both ATI Radeon HD 2000 and Nvidia GeForce 8 is fully dependent on drivers, therefore, it is nearly unpredictable which graphics card will eventually become better DirectX 10 performer.

well... why not using recent drivers for the review ?? and recent games like Bioshock, Word in Conflict which are dominated by 8800s in both dx9 & dx10 ?
I wouldnt take the results of this review for granted. Anyway, I agree with Slobogob.

DX10 is useless IMHO at the moment and XP is still the best OS for gaming. I am awaiting Crysis with baited breath and have seen the comparison of it running in DX9 vs DX10, the difference is hardly noticable. Like Slobogob said, DX10 shouldn't be a factor at all since there aren't any games using it at the moment. In a year or two it may make a difference but by then the 8800GTX will be low man on the totem pole. As an owner of an 8800GTX, I am quite happy with it. It does everything (so far) that I need it to do. But if you have Vista/DX10 already, it probably won't matter what card you have. the 8800GTX and the 2900XT will still run slow as a snail.

The Call of Juarez benchmark isn't too relevant. All cards perform like crap there.The 8800 performs well in Bioshock, and from what I've heard, Crysis under DX10 mode performs well on high details with one.

wow, can you post a link?

Don't bother with DX 10 until you read of a Vista system that smokes Crysis in the future on MAX settings, all this reminds me of the pre-Doom 3 upgrade BS.